Stidham Reconstruction and Investigation Private Investigation and Forensic Reconstruction

SRI: Happy New Year

SRI is a company with a vision of helping people. For 18 years we have helped countless individuals and companies in many different areas: criminal, civil, child custody, divorce, business and medical. Our team in 2015 had 5 seperate criminal cases dismissed by the prosecutors motion, numerous civil cases were settled,  several domestic cases were…

New Rule to Improve Highway Safety

On Thursday, December 10, 2015 the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced the adoption of a Final Rule that will improve roadway safety.   This rule incorporates technology to strengthen commercial truck and bus driver’s compliance with hours-of-service regulations that prevent fatigue among drivers. In the past drivers have been…

Commercial Drivers License

To full understand the higher level of knowledge, experience, skills, and physical abilities than that required to drive a non-commercial vehicle, I personally just got my commercial vehicle license for the SRI truck.   In order to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), an applicant must pass both skills and knowledge testing geared to these…

Jail Crime Investigation

Unfortunately all too often trusted officials don’t uphold their duty to protect and defend those individuals serving time for various crimes in our jail system. This was the case in the 2013 wrongful death case of inmate Larry Trent in the Perry County Detention Center. Deputy Jailers Damon Hickman, and William Howell beat Trent to…

Commercial Motor Vehicle Definitions

Two distinctly different definitions for a commercial motor vehicle are contained within the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. These definitions create a lot of confusion for the legal community. The following is an explanation of these two definitions. FMCSR part 383 outlines the requirements for a commercial driver’s license. Part 383.5 defines the types of…

Eyewitness Testimony

During last year’s NFL playoff’s Dallas Cowboy’s wide receiver Dez Bryant caught the ball at the one yard line but the call was challenged by the Green Bay Packers coach. The referee’s and eventually the NFL said Bryant didn’t maintain possession of the ball. As a Cowboy’s fan, this seemed like and was obviously the…

43rd Annual Public Defender Education

Joey Stidham, Owner of Stidham Reconstruction and Investigation, and Shelly Rice, Crime Scene/Incident Scene Reconstructionist, conducted training Monday at the 43rd annual Public Defender Education conference at the HYATT Regency Downton Lexington, KY regarding the scientific analysis of forensic evidence from a shooting incident to determine the most probable sequence of events. The session included…

Assault Investigation

During our investigation of an assault case a few months ago, our client told us that he absolutely did not commit the crime and gave us the name of two individuals that he thought had actually committed it.  In the course of our investigation, we learned that these two individuals had pawned their cell phone…